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1893 Inventor Thomas A. Edison completed work on the world's first motion picture studio in West Orange, N.J.
1949 RCA releases 1st single record ever (45 rpm)
1959 Texas Instruments requests patent of IC (Integrated Circuit)
1960, four black college students began a sit-in protest at a lunch counter in Greensboro, N.C., where they'd been refused service.
1964 Beatles' "I Want to Hold Your Hand," 1st #1 hit, stays #1 for 7 weeks
1965 Martin Luther King, Jr. and 700 demonstrators arrested in Selma, Alabama
1972 1st scientific hand-held calculator, the HP-35, introduced for $395
1978 Director Roman Polanski skips bail and fled to France after pleading guilty to charges of engaging in sex with a 13-year-old girl
1982 "Late Night with David Letterman" premiered on NBC.
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